iPhone · iOS 26 or later · TestFlight beta
Aptavia for iPhone
A pocket evidence ledger for the GAMSAT: practice questions, short lessons and Section II planning reps that all work with no signal, and one honest picture of what your practice has actually proved.
It is not a second copy of the website. The web product has ten surfaces and lets you choose between them; on a phone, in a four-minute gap, choosing is the friction. This app does one thing instead, and refuses the things a phone cannot do honestly.
How to get it
The app is in TestFlight beta — Apple’s own beta channel. You install Apple’s free TestFlight app, accept an invitation, and get the real build on your iPhone. It is not on the App Store, and we are not going to name a release date: Apple’s review queue decides that one, not us.
There is no public join link yet, so we are adding testers by email address, which is how TestFlight invitations work. Email contact@aptavia.com.au with the address you want the invitation sent to, and say you want the iPhone beta. Apple emails you the invitation; you accept it inside TestFlight.
Two honest caveats. Places in an external beta are capped by Apple, so there may be a wait. And a beta build is a beta build — it can have rough edges, and we would rather you knew that before you installed it than after.
- Price
- Free. Nothing in it is for sale.
- Requires
- iOS 26 or later, on an iPhone
- Account
- Optional — practice works signed out
It is free, and there is nothing to buy
Not free-with-an-upsell, and not a trial. The build literally cannot take money: the code that would ask the App Store for a product is switched off in every release build, so the store screen opens already saying so — “Nothing is on sale in this build”, in those words. There is no paywall in front of a practice question, no locked lesson and no countdown.
Aptavia does sell a subscription — on the web, for essay marking and the coaching surfaces that live there. You can read exactly what that costs on pricing. None of it is sold through the phone, and none of it is needed to use the app.
What it does
Three tabs, and no fourth. Each one is a thing a phone can do honestly in the gaps of a day you are already living.
Today
One page that says what today is worth doing — or that nothing is
The app will not manufacture work. When your evidence does not justify a session it says so and draws no button, which is the opposite of every streak mechanic you have met.
Practice
Questions with a confidence declared before you see the answer
Sure · Narrowed it · Guessing is the answer gesture, not an optional extra. A right answer you called a guess is weak evidence, and the app weights it that way — so its picture of you is built from how you actually reasoned, not just what you scored.
Write
Six-minute Section II planning reps — the part that fits a phone
Framing, structure and pace, hard-scored against authored theses. It does not mark prose and never claims to: two essays in sixty-five minutes is a desk job, and the app says so rather than pretending a phone can stand in.
Underneath all three sits the thing the app is actually for: every figure it prints is built from your attempts with a weight — how confident you said you were, how stale the attempt is, whether you had met the question before — and every number opens into the attempts behind it. It will not print a confident point-estimate score, and it will not invent work on a day your evidence does not justify one.
What it deliberately does not do
Published up front, because installing this expecting the website is the fastest way to be disappointed by it.
You cannot write a GAMSAT essay in the app.
Two essays in sixty-five minutes at a keyboard is what the exam actually asks. The app books the hour and sets one alarm; the writing happens on the web, at a desk, on purpose.
There is no AI chat, tutor or question generator on the phone.
The app never generates content. Every question in it was written and reviewed on the platform and travels one way, platform to phone.
There is nothing to buy, and no advertisement for anything to buy.
The build cannot take money at all — the code path that would ask the App Store for a product is switched off in every release build.
There are no third-party trackers, ad SDKs or analytics vendors in it.
Every network request the app makes goes to our own servers. Its privacy manifest declares no tracking and no tracking domains. Some lessons offer a video, and that hands off to the YouTube app rather than embedding a player — nothing loads inside Aptavia.
It does not send push notifications.
The build ships without the push entitlement. The reminders you can turn on are scheduled by your own phone and are written from facts already in your ledger.
Section II is written at a desk. That is the design, not a gap.
The written section is two essays in sixty-five minutes, typed. A phone cannot rehearse that, and an app that let you thumb four paragraphs on a tram would be training you for an exam that does not exist. So the app trains the half that genuinely fits: finding the tension in a quote, and having a shape before you start writing, inside the window the real sitting leaves you.
When it is time to write, the app books the hour you will be at a keyboard and sets one alarm to get you there. The essay itself, and the marking, happen on the web — essay marking explains how that works. Marked essays come back down to the phone to read.
What it collects
Signed out, the app holds your practice on your phone and sends us nothing. Sign in and it syncs the ledger to your account so it survives a lost phone, and it sends first-party usage events — which screens were opened, how a session ended — plus crash and hang counts from Apple’s own reporting. No advertising identifier, no third-party analytics, no tracking, and nothing that carries text you wrote: the events it can send are a fixed list of names and numbers, and there is no way to put a sentence in one.
The full policy that governs all of it is the same one that governs the website — privacy policy. The app’s bundle identifier, if you like to check such things, is au.com.aptavia.Aptavia.
Fair questions
Is the Aptavia GAMSAT app on the App Store?
Not yet. It is in TestFlight beta — Apple's official beta channel — and we will not name a release date we cannot keep, because Apple's review queue decides it and not us. TestFlight installs the real app on your iPhone through Apple's own TestFlight app.
Does the iPhone app cost anything?
No, and there is nothing in it to buy. The build cannot take money at all: the code path that would ask the App Store for a product is switched off in every release build, so the app's own store screen opens saying nothing is on sale in it. Aptavia does sell a web subscription for essay marking, but none of it is sold through the phone and none of it is needed to use the app.
Can I write my Section II essays in the app?
No, and that is deliberate. Two essays in sixty-five minutes at a keyboard is what the exam actually asks for, so the app does the part that fits a phone — six-minute planning reps on framing, structure and pace — books the hour you will be at a desk, and sets one alarm. The writing and the marking happen on the web.
Which iPhones does it run on?
It needs iOS 26 or later, and it is an iPhone app — there is no iPad or Mac version. An iPhone on an older version of iOS cannot install it.
Does it work without a signal?
Yes. Practice, lessons, your ledger and your Section II planning reps all work with no connection. Signing in backs the ledger up and downloads more questions to your account, but nothing you have already done needs the network to be usable.
No iPhone, or not on iOS 26?
There is no Android app and no iPad app, and we would rather say so than let you wait for one. Everything Aptavia does is on the web and works in a phone browser — start with the free tools or take the free practice test. Questions about the beta go to contact@aptavia.com.au.